Show your cat how much you love them this Valentine’s Day by baking them some delicious homemade cat treats. All natural, these tuna flavoured kitty treats are easy to make with just a few simple ingredients.
The Pawesome Cats family and their friends have happily taste-tested the tuna heart cat treats, and gave them a big paws up.
Tuna Heart Cat Treats
makes 30-40 cat treats
Ingredients:
- 150g canned tuna, in oil
- 1 cup rice or oat flour
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp dried catnip
- extra olive oil
Preheat your oven to 175˚C (350˚F), or 160˚C (320˚F) if you have a fan-forced oven.
Combine drained tuna, rice or oat flour, egg and catnip in a bowl, and mix thoroughly with a fork until combined. The mixture should hold together but not be excessively sticky. If the mixture is too dry, you can add a little extra olive oil as required.
Roll the dough into ½ teaspoon sized balls and place on a lined biscuit tray, flatten with the back of a spoon.
To add the heart-shaped pattern, you can use a commercial stencil although I improvised and made a heart stencil using a knife and piece of raw potato. Press the heart shape gently into the top of the treat so that it leaves an indented heart shape pattern.
Place the treats into the oven and bake for 10-12 minutes until they are dry and slightly golden on top.
Allow to cool completely and place in an airtight container. The treats can be stored in the fridge for approximately 7-10 days, although if your cats love them as much as mine do, I doubt they’ll last that long.
Just made these treats for my “kiddo” Sami. Add some water to the dough if you use tuna in water not oil. Sami actually “chewed” these treats instead of swallowing them whole! Not sure how long they’ll keep but I did put them in an airtight container in fridge after cooled. Nice to know what’s in the food I’m feeding my baby. Not concerned anymore about the added junk in store bought treats. Sami ate 6 in a row and I don’t feel guilty for it because I knew what he was eating! Would have tried them myself if it weren’t for the cat nip! Ha! Thank you for sharing.
Oooooh, these sound nommy! We may have to wait for a few days to make some, though, as we’re supposed to get 14 inches of snow starting tonight. 🙂
These sound so super nommy. Mom just sent the recipe to the printer. She’ll just have to get some oat or rice flour. We’d send her out after it tomorrow, but we are getting buried in snow so guess we’ll have to wait a couple days. Hope y’all get a big batch for V’day Friday.
They look fantastic. A perfect Valentine gift for that very special kitty in our life.
Great idea! Do you have a recipe for chicken treats? Cinco and Manna are big chicken fans 🙂 I would totally try this.
Those look pretty tasty even though they aren’t for us humans. I wonder if my dogs would like them.
Baking your own means you don’t have to worry about the ingredients being ‘less than stellar’!
Tuna plus catnip? Skeeter says: what’s not to love?!
What an excellent recipe. We don’t have kitties, but have friends who do, and now we can make treats to give to them. Thank you!
Oh we gotta get the mom to make these for us since we can’t use the oven ourselves.